The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone”...
Congressional Omnibus is Like a Bad Hollywood Movie Sequel
This weekend’s late-night spending vote in Congress seems like another in an endless series of sequels to a bad suspense movie. Just at the brink of “disaster,” just before the stroke of midnight, Congress pulls off a miracle and passes an omnibus bill to save us from...
Fiscal 2023 Federal Budget Deficit Third-Largest Ever
It takes a lot of money to run the biggest government in the history of the world. The federal government ran a $1.695 trillion budget deficit in fiscal 2023. It was the third-largest deficit in U.S. history. The only time the feds ran bigger deficits was during the...